Ever wonder what really happened to the dinosaurs? Chick knows! Click on the comic to read more!
Chick is now online, and all of his wonderful messages in cartoon can be perused at your leisure! Chick tracts were around when I was really young, and I remember one in particular that scared the living crap out of me. Something about an MC 500 foot Jesus coming to rip my guts out. I love how evil all non-Christians are in Chick's fabulous brain.
Incest and murder are my things? Comedy gold. But there are many many other classics, including one about how to convert Muslims to Christianity by insulting Allah!
And one of my personal favorites about a rather testy old Evolution teacher. Those bad science professors sure need some calming Christ in their life, don't they?
Have you noticed how all of the main characters, both good and evil, in Chick tracts are white? Well, don't feel left out, people of color. Lest you think Chick might be racist, Chick made a tract for you, too! (I pasted the description onto the tract cover from the main tract listing page)
And not to spoil the ending of Oops! or anything, but I also think it's important to note that Chick gives black people a very important role in his mythos:
There are other tracts made just especially for the blacks too. There's Soul Sisters, (featuring black Adam & Eve and a black Angel! See? Chick's no racist!) Who Loves You?, and Chick even took the time to kindly redraw the Allah Had No Son tract just for them! He retitled it Who is Allah?
And no post about Chick would be complete with out a tract about the totalitarian rule of the costumed anti-Christ during the last days on Earth before Jesus comes to rule the world. Sadly, we don't get to see Jesus in a Batman-like costume come and pummel the joker here, but I guess the implication is enough to get Chick's message across.
A panel from this strip explains away all the contradictions about Christians who are anti-environmentalist, and who cheer on nuclear wars and unrest in Israel:
That's why I'm so excited? Christians are freaking scary sometimes, dude. Oh, keep this one on the down-low for now, but Chick doesn't like Queers much, neither... or maybe he's afraid of them? Hard to tell. Wonder why a straight guy is afraid of a couple of other guys holding hands?
Gulp! Gay Hippies! Or perhaps the implication is that all hippies are Jerry Garcia lookalike commie fags... not sure. All I know is, it's no big deal, it's all a joke to me! Proposition Hate? Nah... Proposition GREAT!
Another one of my favorites is an interesting piece of cartoon art titled Last Rites. It's theme is essentially how wrong Catholics are about God and his rules, and it starts off with, you know, an ordinary everyday non-Christian couple driving a car.
They accidentally run over a good Catholic man who dies and goes in front of God for judgment, who then informs the poor Catholic man that he's been doing it wrong and will therefore burn in Hell for all eternity. The Catholic man complains to God and says that he went to church, and did everything the Priests told him he had to do to go to Heaven, that this isn't fair! How was he to know that there was a better way? Well, says God, Chick Tracts would have straightened you out!
Apparently, Chick Tracts are so awesome that now even God is using them to witness to us and to save our souls. Jerry Falwell & Pat Robertson are out, Chick is in. I hope everybody got that memo.
It's funny that you posted about this. I was listening to the Hour Of Slack recently and they were talking about this movie:
http://jackchickmovie.com/ - God's Cartoonist
The comic crusade of Jack T. Chick.
I'm trying to download it.
Posted by: Gary | Sunday, January 18, 2009 at 15:38
I want to see that movie. Netflix doesn't have it yet though.
Posted by: messiestobjects | Sunday, January 18, 2009 at 16:18
In 1841 dragons were renamed dinosaurs? Did god approve that change?
Christianity is confusing. It hard to follow the thread of Chick's stories. But, still, I know he's very afraid for me and is trying to save me from the Lincoln Memorial of God's judgment. So, you know, I appreciate the effort ... especially when he adapts the message for particular audiences. How thoughtful and not racist at all.
Posted by: Miss Luongo | Monday, January 19, 2009 at 11:27
Nope, Pope Gregory XVI must have. I assume the reasoning must have been that once dinosaur bones were discovered dating back millions of years, it was a way to say "Nuh-uh, they used to call dinosaurs 'Dragons' back in the day, and we know that people used to fight dragons based on the historical accounts we have thanks to the Grimm Brothers." (Catholics like calling mythological and fairy tale texts "historical")
Posted by: messiestobjects | Monday, January 19, 2009 at 12:13
I dl'ed the movie. Haven't viewed it yet.
Posted by: Gary | Monday, January 19, 2009 at 15:12
just watched it - it's ok if you're really interested in the subject. I enjoyed seeing Ivan Stang and Hal Robins, only because I'm familiar with them from the COSG.
Posted by: Gary | Monday, January 19, 2009 at 16:39
I don't know what COSG is... Are they pro or anti-Fundi?
Posted by: messiestobjects | Monday, January 19, 2009 at 17:57
Sorry - Church Of The SubGenius. I forgot the T.
Posted by: Gary | Monday, January 19, 2009 at 18:07
Oh, Neo-Fundi then. :)
Posted by: messiestobjects | Monday, January 19, 2009 at 22:54
I'm a Christian and I'm just begging that you don't let these tracts speak for all of us. They are horrible. There are some normal Christians out there. It's all about the love and grace of Jesus - not these weird scary comics.
Posted by: Eric Wakeling | Wednesday, January 28, 2009 at 17:03
I understand that there are different kinds of Christians out there, really I do. I was raised in a Baptist church and I get it. But I'm sorry to say, as near as I can tell, many of Chick's assumptions ARE in fact based on Biblical scripture. He may be editorializing for dramatic and/or shock effect, but he's quoting scripture. Many Christians may be a lot less bigoted and ignorant than he is, but what he's saying is after all the natural reductio ad absurdum of Christian Biblical belief.
Anyway, it doesn't matter. When I bash Fundies like Chick, I'm only bashing Fundies like Chick. If I call them Christians while doing so, it's because they call themselves Christians. I will try to be more careful in the future however and put the fun back into Fundies.
Posted by: messiestobjects | Wednesday, January 28, 2009 at 17:52
In my opinion if you THINK you're a christian and you disagree with Chick, you're just proving his point and you're going to HELL. You're not a REAL christian like Chick and you're screwed with your liberal (aka satanic) christian beliefs. Sorry, but I'll see you in hell. Thank God.
Posted by: Gary | Thursday, January 29, 2009 at 08:47
Yeah that's the crux of all religion... Chick thinks his version is correct, Osama bin Laden thinks his version is correct, Jerry Fatty Fart-Head Falwell thinks his version is correct, the Dalai Llama thinks he's got it all figgered out... and on and on. SO, either one of them, quite randomly, has got it right, or none of them have. I hope they have all the different denominations separated in Hell, or even the eternal flame will get ruined by these jerks fighting all over the place.
Posted by: messiestobjects | Thursday, January 29, 2009 at 14:16